Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a great week-end and are taking some time off to relax and recharge. I thought I’d write a new ‘links folder‘ post because it’s been 3 weeks since the last one. :)
Cory Miller, who runs the Premium WordPress themes store, iThemes, is giving a 25% discount on all WP [...]
One of the first things you do when you start freelancing is set up ways for your clients to communicate with you. You might have a website with a contact form. You probably have an email (or five). A cell number? Sure, why not?
The work starts coming in. At first, it’s a trickle, then [...]
Isn’t it fun to work from home? You have your main computer, access to the internet, phone and all that. All you need is right there in your home office, you don’t have to worry about anything and you even take some things for granted.
When you go to Starbucks it’s not because you need to, [...]
Even nowadays, there are still more than a few folks who think that a regular job is the only way to go and that earning a living online is nothing more than a myth. Is that a way of thinking which will get you anywhere, is selling your time the only possibility?
Of course not, and [...]
As many of you have been following on my Freelance Smackdown! threads, I’ve been putting Christine O’Kelly’s eBook to the test - and it’s passing with flying colors. One of the gems in this book is a piece of advice that’s so simple you may have never thought of it - but it could [...]
As a freelancer, entrepreneur or business owner, your main goal is to convert each client into a returning client. It’s much easier to keep your clients than always having to try to find new ones (and cheaper too).
Making sure your clients are completely satisfied is not only a surefire way to keep them coming back, [...]
Four Steps for One Great Writing Technique
One writing technique spans all forms of writing, though, from persuasive copy that sells to advertisements that incite to stories that entertain. It’s storytelling, and it’s a technique that works.
If They Come, You Will Build It
I thought I would give some useful information to any up-and-coming web designers that might be having some trouble finding business and reeling it in.
Web Services I Can’t Live Without As A Web Designer
As web designers and internet enthusiasts we tend to use web applications to safely work without the worry of loosing data due to hardware failure.
SEO Tools: Six Firefox 3 SEO Extensions
In this post, we’ll look at six useful SEO add-ons for Firefox 3. In no particular order, here are my favorite Firefox extensions for SEO and internet marketing.
Logo Inspiration For Your Design Blog
If you are planning to open a new blog or change the logo of the existing one, you can have some inspiration from this article.
What You're Missing If You Don't Challenge Your Clients
Clients are very quick to challenge designers on their choices, however the doing the opposite is often met with tension. Because of this tension, some designers eventually give up and let the client dictate the work.
How to Read
Who needs to learn how to read? After all, we all learned how to read fairly early in life, usually in elementary school, right? But do you know how to really read? More importantly, are you really reading?
9 Easy Usability Improvements for Blogs
One of our primary goals as designers is to constantly improve the usability of our websites and blogs. Content, while very important, doesn’t help readers if they can’t easily get to it.
